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This proposal is a work in progress. Once it is in a mature and developed state I shall plug it on various related pages. Until then please feel that you can contribute.
The quarantine proposal would change the current system in two ways. It would allow an article to be tagged with the following tag.
This would (as mentioned in the text) have the consequence that this article would not be picked up by our mirrors. Also in the search function on wikipedia the quarantined pages would have a separate section. Having a quarantine tag (and some code in mediawiki that recognises it) will allow further measures to be taken with regard to quarantined pages whenever the community agrees.
The second change is to create a deletion context for pages. Hence Meme would have a talk page Talk:Meme and a deletion page Deletion:Meme (if someone decided it should be put up for deletion). A deletion tag should be created which includes the quarantine tag allowing propoganda or vanity to be efficiently quarantined and simultaneously put up for deletion. The voting for or against a given page's deletion could then occur entirely on the deletion context of that page. If a single page is put up for deletion more than once then the deletion context of that page will hold the history of previous attempts to delete that page. Further if a page is deleted the deletion context page may be allowed to hang around to allow people to view the reason.
Vfd would then become just a special page linking the pages up for deletion in order of submission.